Angel
Batista and Maria LaGuerta have been carrying on a secret office romance
and risk being
fired by staying together.

In
this scene, they are sitting near the beach, drinking spiked Icee's.

Troubled
by the sudden deaths he's seen on the job, Angel tells Maria he loves her,
shouting it to the world.

At
first, she refuses to say it back, fearing something bad might happen to
him if she does. But then she relents and tells him she loves him.

The
scene ends with them embracing.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A spot near
the beach - just not in Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. They filmed
this next to the Belmont Pier, in Long
Beach, CA.

Angel & Maria
are sitting on a low barrier wall that separates
a parking lot from the sandy beach. That parking lot is between
the south ends of Termino Ave
& 39th Place-
east of the Belmont pier and west of the Olympic Pool
building.

The wall runs
east-west along the south edge of that parking lot.

Both the pier
and that building can be seen behind them in various shots.

When the camera
shows the pier behind them, it is looking southwest. When
it shows the Olympic building behind them, it is looking east/southeast.

Over the previous
seasons, they have filmed several other scenes in the same Belmont Pier
area, including a beach patio cafe scene
shot at the La Palapa restaurant (which is partially visible
behind them), the scene of Debra talking to transvestite
hookers (in an alley about 100 yards to the northeast), and the beach
scene where a perverse photographer stalked Astor.

UPDATE:
The Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool, mentioned in this article, was demolished in early 2015. They discovered seismic deficiencies in
the old building, so they torn it down. It will eventually be replaced with
a new pool.

La
Palapa, the patio café which was the scene of several different
"Dexter" scenes over the years, was attached to the west side of the
pool building, so it was torn down as well.

A. I've
been to the Belmont pier and its plaza on several occasions (including
times I was shooting photos of other Dexter locations). The pier
is visible in the background of these scenes, and I simply recognized it
when I saw it.